Ryan and Dad at the movies. It's pitch black there, so I used Perfectly Clear to pull the very dark image out of the mud. iPhone 7 Plus front camera at 2.9mm at f/2.2 at 1/15 at Auto ISO 2,000. bigger.

In response to certain world factors, Ryan and Katie decided it was high time to build and provision a survival bunker. The bunker is stocked with food, water, weapons, ammunition and tools. Ryan is defending it with his rifle.

I presume Katie, queen of pillow forts, built the structure, while it was Ryan who surveyed the world conditions and designed the air recirculation and other systems.

I was not allowed for obvious reasons to publish this until after this test system was moved to an undisclosed location.

Ryan saw my Fuji X100F and asked "Why does anyone use a camera like that anymore when we have iPhones?" I explained it's because iPhones don't have strong enough flash, and snapped these with my iPhone 7 Plus to show him:

The iPhone flash isn't bright enough for most lighting, but it also has no reflector to direct the light at the subject. It makes a great flashlight because the iPhone flash light shines equally in all directions, but you';all see that it lights up Ryan's arm much more than his face because it's closer. Camera flashes are directional, and put more light forwards to light faces.

The best results from the iPhone are to run the non-flash shot through Perfectly Clear, which does a pretty good job of automatically making faces look as they should. Here's what it does to the non-flash iPhone image above:

Ryan shows me his friend Roberto on FaceTime on his Apple Watch. Of course Ryan is kidding as usual; the Apple Watch still lacks a camera. In this case, Ryan put up a photo of Roberto and told me he was on FaceTime. (Fuji X100F, flash ON, f/2 at 1/60 at Auto ISO 500, Perfectly Clear.) bigger.